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Videos of the nibunker mentioned above - wish I had one out the back garden

Also recently read "The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst", which had this:

Hennessy tells the story of a jokey 1961 encounter between Khrushchev and the British Ambassador, Frank Roberts. The Soviet leader asked how many H-bombs Roberts thought would be needed to wipe out the UK. ‘Six’, he replied. Khrushchev chided him for his pessimism. He said that ‘optimists’ estimated it would take nine — but reassured him with a twinkle that

the Soviet General Staff… had earmarked several scores of bombs for use against the UK so that the Soviet Union had a higher opinion of the UK’s resistance capacity than the UK itself.

Ah the innocence. I remember we had a copy of BÃ¡s Beatha at home. It was ireland's version of "duck and cover".
We put a lot of faith on our telephone network surviving, given that at the time it barely survived a gust of wind, let alone a nuclear wind.
The reality is we will be unaware of a chernobyl type accident until long after the damage has been done, based on past history. As for surviving a nuclear conflict, would you really want to?

German 1: Private Schnutz, I have bad news for you.
German 2: Private? I am a general!
German 1: That is the bad news.

The guy who maintains the ROC post in Portadown visited the remains of the Bunker/Fallout shelter in Custume Barracks today - photography allowed and it's to feature on an episode of Nationwide in the future: